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Why Tiki? A Deep Dive into America’s Fascination with Tiki Bars, Tropical Drinks and the South Pacific

Paola MardoDecember 12, 2016

Over the last several months, I’ve spent a lot of time around tiki bars – reading, researching, interviewing and trying everything from a Mai Tai to a Bayanihan...

CULTUREFILM & TVPODCASTS

Top Bunks & Aisle Seats: Sim Jackson of The Vivids

Ashley EadyDecember 9, 2016

For this installment of the Top Bunks and Aisle Seats podcast, Ampersand's Ashley Eady interviewed Sim Jackson. Sim is the lead singer and guitarist for the Los...

MUSICTop Bunks and Aisle Seats

Now See This—2001: A Space Odyssey

Brian MarksDecember 8, 2016

2001: A Space Odyssey (Warner Bros. Pictures) Welcome to Now See This, a source for classic film recommendations around Los Angeles. To escape the stresses of modern life, why not get away from it all with a trip into outer space and Stanley Kubr...

FILM & TVNow See ThisPODCASTS

Abuelitas & Chefs Part 2: A Oaxacan Ice Cream Making Legacy

Samanta HelouDecember 7, 2016

https://youtu.be/Kgj-cc9RanE Juan Antonio’s family has been making Oaxacan-style ice cream since 1940. He explains that it’s a style of ice cream u...

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Behind Hollywood’s Intergalactic Exploration

Angel ChenDecember 6, 2016

Sometimes you only have to go as far as your own backyard to travel to outer space. Eamonn Price is one such lucky guy. His family owns and operates the costume...

FILM & TV

UCB’s My Diary and the Currency of Embarrassment

Jamie CarragherDecember 5, 2016

Lindsay Ames reads at My Diary (Photo Credit: UCB) Cream soft and smooth wet and glossy dry skin banished from my body a loved one rubs it on my shoulders this is a massage. Lindsay Ames wrote “Cream” when she was eight years old. Nowadays, t...

CULTURE

Alexandra Grant Wants to Live Like a Ghost

Didi BeckDecember 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant talks about her journey to return a stolen tombstone, the real purpose of art, and why she wants to live like a ghost....

VISUAL ART

A Photographer Sees Double in His 3-D American Portraits

Haley RayDecember 1, 2016

https://vimeo.com/193787335 Jim Payne tells the remarkable story of his 40-year project, documenting Americans across the U.S. with a 3-D camera. His project "...

CULTUREVISUAL ART

Ted Hearne’s The Source: An Opera That Watches Back

Brian MarksNovember 22, 2016

The act of watching at The Source (Photo courtesy the LA Opera). Ted Hearne’s The Source is a contemporary opera that upends the conventions and expectations of the medium. Rather than watching the performance, the audience watches itself. And wh...

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Cultivating Creative Space

The Art of Optimistic Nihilism: Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Beautiful Destruction

Like a Rumble from the Core of the Earth: ‘Memoria’

‘Memoria’s’ Existential Sounds and Silence

The Depths of a Daughter’s Obsessive and Destructive Desire in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: an Undefinable Maximalist Triumph

‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ is Culturally Precise and Ubiquitously Chaotic

Explaining the Rage: The Real Dangers of Live Music

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